Eugenia Cheng

How Math is Like Baking: You Just Need a Recipe

The following is an excerpt from How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng. Listen to SciFri on May 8, 2015, to hear Cheng talk more about practical math applications. Pie: Abstractions as Blueprints Cottage pie, shepherd’s pie, and fisherman’s pie are all more or less the same—the […]

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